Bug#231489: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#231489: fixed in openldap2.3

[Peter Marschall]

Hi Matthijs,

On Sunday, 28. May 2006 13:51, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:
> I wasn't planning to close this bug yet, because there are a few other
> binaries which needed my attention.
>
> See:
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root     30584 2006-05-20 14:00:33 ./usr/bin/ldapdelete
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root     30584 2006-05-20 14:00:33 ./usr/bin/ldapcompare
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root     30584 2006-05-20 14:00:33 ./usr/bin/ldappasswd
>
> They have the same size and I think those binaries are also hardlinks,
> and can be replaced by symlinks.

I cannot confirm this.
These 3 files ldap{compare,delete,passwd} are in fact 3 different
files. It is only by chance that they have the same size on i386.

I double-checked your assumption in 2 installations.
The files differ not only in their inodes but also in their contents.
(i.e. diff tells they are different)

The info on this bug was only because I stumpled over it, while
browsing through the bug list and checking whether the bugs I filed
in the last few days were worked on.
I consider the findings in those bugs more important than this one
(especially as they are regressions agains previous versions of 
openldap in Debian)

Regards
Peter

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Peter Marschall
peter at adpm.de